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Title	:	Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body
Author	:	Armand Marie Leroi
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 448 pages
Published	:	January 25th 2005 by Penguin Books (first published 2003)
Categories	:	Science. Nonfiction. Biology. Health. Medicine. Medical. History

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Mutants gives a brilliant narrative account of our genetic code and the captivating people whose bodies have revealed it--a French convent girl who found herself changing sex at puberty; children who, echoing Homer's Cyclops, are born with a single eye in the middle of their foreheads; a village of long-lived Croatian dwarves; one family, whose bodies were entirely covered with hair, was kept at the Burmese royal court for four generations and gave Darwin one of his keenest insights into heredity. This elegant, humane, and engaging book "captures what we know of the development of what makes us human" (Nature). Visit Armand Marie Leroi on the web: http: //armandleroi.com/index.htmlStepping effortlessly from myth to cutting-edge science,

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Original Title:	Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body
ISBN:	0142004820 (ISBN13: 9780142004821)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Guardian First Book Award (2004)

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Every once in a while I come across a science book by accident that are absolutely incredible. This is one such book. I teach physiology and pathophysiology at a university in Utah, but I always am looking for good books on genetics. I liked the way the author approached this from a different and less straight-forward point. In using people with differences such as children with one eye that we call 'cyclops' and explaining how things go wrong in the genes, Leroi provides an excellent

I'm not a dumb lady. But science hasn't really ever been my thing (which is why it's funny that I teach my human sexuality course in a biology department). I've been wanting to read more science stuff but also a little apprehensive about it, so a book about genetic mutations with a cover as awesome as this one was just what I needed. There were pieces of the book that lost me a little bit in their attention to scientific detail, but overall the writing was sharp and often funny, as well as

i've now read this book twice and all i can say is that leroi has a rare skill; he is able to present dense scientific facts in a way that borders on poetic. his fascination with genetics is apparent in the loving detail with which he writes. i particularly loved the way he started each section with a tale from the annals of history, giving a very personal voice to each of the "disorders" he describes.

I am decidedly a liberal arts kind of woman. I managed to cram enough science into my head to make it (barely) through college and then promptly forgot all of it. Much science seems like magic to me, a sentiment that makes me sound really dumb, but Im okay with that (though I do need to mention that I understand how magnets work). So it was a little bit of a shock when I realized this was not a book about carny folk and old side-show acts that featured freaks. I was intimidated by the book and

This has to be one of the most boring books I've read in a long time.I'm fascinated by mutations, evolution, DNA etc, and even spent last semester cutting and making recombinant DNA, but this book just bored me to tears.For people just looking for a 'freakshow' or whatever, look elsewhere, this book is not full of pictures, and isn't geared towards that type of crowd anyways, it's geared towards people (like myself) who are fascinated with how DNA works, and how errors in DNA can happen through



This is a beautifully written elucidation on the effects of variations in the development of the human body. It is by turns technical, philosophical, moving and terrifying, given that the small variations in proteins, cells and enzymes driven by genetic variation can have such startling effects.I came away from this book with a renewed awe about the complexity of life and the incredible details and hazards of an individual human being built successfully in the womb: the amazing thing for me is